Star Trails above Taif

© Mohammad J. Al-Mumen

Star Trails above Taif

Uploaded: January 13, 2008

Description

These star trails were photographed in Taif, west of Saudi Arabia. The exposure lasted for 2 hours (240 images were combined together using Software Star Trails 1.0)

Comments

Sara Shortt March 18, 2008

Do you know what your settings were for this picture? I love taking star trail pictures, but have problems getting the settings just right - usually the sky ends up with too much light. Looks like you got it just right in this one! #880380

Mohammad J. Al-Mumen March 19, 2008

Instead of taking the exposure in one long shot, I divided the exposure to 30 sec shorter exposures. then I combined all the exposures into one shot using hte program Star Trail 1.0.

I used about 240 photos to get the above shot.

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Mohammad J. Al-Mumen March 19, 2008

Deviding the one long exposure to shorter exposures insures that the light does not accomulate as you shoot.
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